For those of you wanting to play what-if-or-what-could-be:
They started off with six celebrities and they played a three-pricing game TPIR. The winner of that went to the semifinals.
The five remaining celebrities then played a game called Take Your Pick, which had elements of Let's Make a Deal and Deal or No Deal. The winner of that went to the seminfinals.
The four remaining celebrities then played a game called The Golden Shot. There is not an American game equivalent of this, maybe the FCC does not allow in-studio archery. The winner of that went to the semifinals.
The three remaining celebrities then played Sale of the Century. The winner of that went to the semifinals, the two remaining celebs were elminiated.
The first semifinals was Card Sharks, but with the U.K. twist that it was a "couples game". Each of the two players brought a friend along. The winner went to the finals, the loser was eliminated.
The second semifinals was Bullseye, the U.K. version with darts, therefore completing the government mandate that at least 2 of every 7 game shows involve projectiles. Note here that the normal version had three teams of one dart thrower and one question answerer, for the purposes of the marathon, there were only two teams with an imported dart champion. The winner went to the finals, the loser was eliminated.
The finals were Family Feud with the final two celebs' actual families.
The issues you have are:
*Two of the seven shows are on the air here. None of the shows above were currently on the air in the U.K. I don't think Bob is going to let a B-list comedian host his show.
*Three of the shows don't have U.S. equivalents, although LMAD could easily substitute for Take Your Pick. The four-person All-Star Password format could substitute for The Golden Shot (and I guess archery could be worked in if necessary). Pretty much any 2-person game could take over for Bullseye.
*Other than Tom Bergeron, I really don't know if we have a talent that can pull hosting five-to-seven distinct games or do them with the slight hint of irony that the British version did. Knowing our luck, it's Billy Bush, who wouldn't know irony if it was fed to him on a teleprompter.
*Does CBS have six B-listers willing to be the contestants? For the British one, you had a game show co-host, a reality show host, two talk show hosts and two older actors. Not that CBS has to be wed to that breakdown, but the rough U.S. equivalents would be: Vanna White, Phil Keoghan, Marilyn Milian, Rachel Ray, Brad Garrett and Joshua Morrow. Would the average viewer be thrilled by this?
As much as I would want to see this here, snapping up the rights and actually producing the thing are two different things. If you want to see the marathon from this year, I do have them in a lovely U.S. format.
--Mike
